![]() ![]() (I recommend a lovely book – Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger’s Chopin, Pianist and Teacher, As Seen by his Pupils – for eyewitness accounts.) All contemporary listeners were impressed by Chopin’s poetic imagination, noting he had a prodigious technique but chose to deploy it carefully and intelligently he was interested in the quality of sound, particularly soft timbres. He often taught these mazurkas to his pupils to make them think about phrasing and tone production at a sophisticated level, which they found very challenging. ![]() Most are very short, yet the rich detail of the music is extraordinary: Chopin rarely repeats a rhythm or harmony the same way. Mazurkas are immediately captivating, to every kind of pianist. Sealed into each are childhood ghosts and bittersweet love, conflict and resignation. Most of all, Chopin’s mazurkas represent memory. Soulful, witty, and often dramatic, they can be experienced in a multiplicity of ways: as a diary of Chopin’s life as his laboratory for compositional ideas as a testimony to Polish culture and his elegant improvisation. Chopin’s fifty-seven mazurkas form one of the greatest collections of piano literature – some say the greatest. ![]()
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